Improvement in safety-pockets



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

lP. A. STECHER, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

lMPRovEM ENT IN SAFETY-POCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,821, dated July 31, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, P. A. STEGHER, of No. 26 Orchard street, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Safety-Pocket; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, enabling those skilled in the art Ato fully understand and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a front elevationot' a pocket constructed according to my invention, some parts being broken away to expose the internal arrangement. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same. Fig. 3 is a detached elevation of the stop.

Similar letters in the several figures indicate like parts.

This invention consists in the arrangement of a partition-seam extending partially across the pocket, under the mouth thereof, in combination with an inclined or rounded closingseam opposite the mouth in such a manner that a watch or other similar article, on being introduced into the pocket, is carried under the partition-seam, and thereby the direct withdrawal of said watch or other article is prevented.

It consists, further, in the arrangement of a rigid stop in the cloth or other fabric covering the mouth of the pocket, in combination with a recess situated under said stop,- and intended to admit the handle ot' the watch or the corresponding part of another article in such a manner that by said recess the handle or other part is brought in such aposition that it abuts against the edge or end of the stop, and any attempt to Withdraw the watch or other article from the pocket clandestinely will prove abortive.

A represents a watch-pocket, which can be applied to a garment of any desired description. It differs in its external appearance from other watch-pockets in that its mouth B extends in a Vertical instead of a horizontal direction, although I do not wish to confine myself to any particular direction of said mouth, but reserve the right .to place the same as convenience or taste may dictate. Said mouth B is cnt in the cloth or fabric from which the garment is made and to which the pocket is attached, and it leads to the pocket, which is made of canvas or other suitable material and sewed to the inner surface of the garment. This pocket is provided with a partition-seam, c, which extends partially across the pocket from its outer edge to about the middle thereof, and under the mouth, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings, and its clos- Aing-seam b, opposite the mouth or partitionsists simply ofV a thin piece of whalebone or other suitable material, and its lower edge is provided with a lip. c, the-object of which will be presently explained. Under this stop and behind the lip c is a recess, d, cut into the garment and pocket in such a position that the handle of the Watch can be intro- 'duced in the same after said Watch has been put in the pocket, and if an attempt is made to Withdraw the watch said handle will strike l against the stop and prevent the withdrawal until the ring is forced back under the lip, c of the stop. This operation cannot be performed without attracting the attention of the person wearing the Watch, and the operation of clandestinely withdrawing the watch from the pocket is prevented.` By this re cess the watch is also retained in case the pocket should be cut open, and unless a cut is made extending clear throughto said recess the watch cannot'be withdrawn by this operation.

By this simple arrangement a pocket is obtained which forms an absolute safeguard for the watch, so that the same cannot be takenl forth.

P. A. STEGHER. Witnesses: M. M. LIVINGSTON, OTTO GRoUsE. 

